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Author Babb, Sarah L., author

Title Regulating human research : IRBs from peer review to compliance bureaucracy / Sarah Babb
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 171 pages) : illustrations
Contents The federal crackdown and the twilight of approximate compliance -- Leaving it to the professionals -- Organizing for efficiency -- Ethics Review, Inc. -- The common rule and social research -- Accounting for efficiency
Summary This book traces the historic transformation of institutional review boards (IRBs) from academic committees to compliance bureaucracies. Sarah Babb opens the black box of contemporary IRB decision-making, which is increasingly outsourced to specialized private firms
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 06, 2020)
Subject Institutional review boards (Medicine) -- United States
Human experimentation in medicine -- Law and legislation -- United States
Medical ethics committees -- United States
Bureaucracy -- United States
Institutional review boards (Medicine)
Human Experimentation -- legislation & jurisprudence
Ethics Committees, Research
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Bureaucracy
Human experimentation in medicine -- Law and legislation
Institutional review boards (Medicine)
Medical ethics committees
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019021745
ISBN 9781503611238
150361123X